So many people. Starting by those that introduced a decent UI to all those who got patch requests refused for "reasons". Quite a lot of years with hundreds of disgruntled users and engineers scratching their heads why the core team refused to implement obvious improvements.

Now there is finally meshcore, which albeit having some issues of its own has finally permitted to release the artificial limitations on LoRa adoption.

Surprise, surprise: now meshtastic unblocked a whole new set of features when a realistic competitor impacts their user base in just a few months.